Catholic Problems in Western CanadaDaly, George Thomas
Religion
Catholic Problems in Western Canada
Daly, George Thomas
Catholic Church -- Canada
The mustard seed has become now a great tree; branches have been detached
from the main trunk and transplanted in the various parts of the world.
Ireland, Australia,[3] India,[4] America, Canada, each now has its own
Catholic Truth Society.
In 1887, six years after the foundation of the parent Society in England,
Canada had a first branch in Toronto. Halifax,[5] Montreal, Winnipeg,
Regina, Saskatoon, Vancouver soon followed suit. Silent and powerful as
the incoming tide, the Society in Canada is working its way into every
diocese and parish of the land. The Society is now incorporated by act
of Federal Parliament, with Head-Office in Toronto, 67 Bond St. Its
noble and just ambition is to weld into one great efficient organization
the various other branches that are in operation here and there
throughout the Dominion. Organization means efficiency, strength and
success.
The time has come for the Catholic Truth Society in Canada, to create its
own literature, to issue its own pamphlets dealing with the needs and
problems of our own Country. We have been importing from other countries
and have lived until now on their mental activity. But this move demands
unity of purpose and concentration of effort. Moreover, should not this
Dominion-wide organization serve marvellously to rally our dispersed and
disunited forces? There is indeed a sad need of unity in our ranks
to-day.
_Principles._
The assured possession of truth and the pressing obligation for Catholics
to spread it: these are the two main principles upon which is founded and
exists the Catholic Truth Society. As Catholics, we are absolutely sure
that we have the Truth; as Catholics worthy of the name, we feel in
conscience bound to give it to others.
The Catholic Church, like Christ, stands at the cross-roads of humanity
and cries out to the passing generations as they come tramping down the
avenues of time: "_Ego sum Veritas, Via et Vita_--I am the Truth, the
Way, the Life." Her kingdom is that very same Kingdom of Truth of which
the Master spoke to Pilate when the latter had asked Him so insolently:
"What is Truth?" Faith gives to everyone of Her children the right to
all the wealth of that Kingdom.
The self-assurance of the Catholic mind in matters of Religion is a noted
and universal fact which implies necessarily the tranquil possession of
Truth. This certainly is not a blind adherence dictated by fear or
fatalism as some would lead the unwary to believe; but rather, as St.
Paul states, the reasonable subjugation of the mind . . . "_Rationabile
absequium_." The universal unrest and chaotic condition of Christendom
outside of the Catholic Church are in sharp contrast with the unity and
tranquillity of the Catholic mind. This is not the place to prove for
our own pleasure and benefit the security of our position. Christian
Apologetics have vindicated it.
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